PBP: Champions League - Round of 16, Second Leg - FC Barcelona v. Paris Saint Germain - 8 March 2017

Guys, there is no triplets talk.my hope for this season is just a copa win but the game has kicked the while team from any kind of slumber,now all that they should do is just fly.

I love Suarez,crazy guy but also having a kind kf animal spirit which is matched by very few people like diego costa.

 

Seriously though, if Barca lose to Alaves in the CdR final they better win the other two just to save face. If they beat Alaves I'll be more than happy with 1 out of the other 2.

 

And what's funny about this not many PSG/french fans are complaining about the decisions. It's predominantly Real fans with some United fans. I think what happened on Wednesday probably moved more feelings than when their own team won the UCL last year. Serious. Just lmao at the salt

 

Real fans I can understand being bitter. United fans though, wtf? Is it because they have been irrelevant since Ronaldo left that club such that they have to vigorously support Ronaldo's current team to feed their appetite for glory?

 

I fond it funny that fans of teams who were helped in CL finals do that. Rooney was offside vs Barca and so was Ramos. Fans of 2 teams who were helped in the final complain about others. It's espcially funny regarding ManU fans because Liverpool fans have always accused Manchester United of being helped. Of course the scoursers are a bunch of idiots who believe idiotic conspiracies. Irony is lost on them

But I get it, Barca have won 2 CL from them. They can't really complain about the refs in those games so they are bitter by proxy

 

Word 'Barcelona' hit a new record of searches on Google after Barca's win v PSG. It hadn't drawn so much interest since 2004 [google trends]

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I have watched those last nine minutes in 10 different languages now [emoji23]

Anyone else felt like Chelsea and Torres creepy moment when Arda lost the ball there? [emoji33]

 

"Moshmunka! Moshmunka! Moshmunka, Moshmunka, Moshmunka!" Whatever that word/phrase means (and however it's actually spelled), it must be important.

 

I wasn't too far off

 

Great article

http://www.eurosport.com/football/c...alousy-and-sour-grapes_sto6088259/story.shtml

Criticism of Luis Suarez and Barcelona reeks of bitter jealousy and sour grapes

- "Defenders are checking, blocking, holding, grappling, using force to foul their opponents and too often referees are allowing it to take place..it's blatant fouling and deserves punishment. If you are obsessed more with stopping your opponent than winning the ball, that cannot be right."

-Before the referee blew for the penalty, Marquinhos was looking at Suarez and not the ball. Whether or not there was enough to go down is a moot point, but the fact that the PSG defender made contact with Suarez leaves the decision open to interpretation.

It gave the referee a decision to make, and in real time he saw it as a penalty. The assistant line judges behind the goal did not disagree.

-What goes around comes around. A few weeks ago, the Barcelona defender Gerard Pique berated a referee for awarding Real Madrid a contentious penalty in a 3-2 win at Villarreal.
"We already know about Pique's world, where everything's a plot against him," said the Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos.

-There is also the issue of personal interest attached to some of the hysterical criticism of Barcelona being part of some shadowy conspiracy theory. If Suarez had been playing for Liverpool and this had occurred against Manchester United in the closing moments, would the Liverpool fans care?
Of course not. If Suarez is playing for your club, you would only be viewing the match through large Luis Suarez-loving glasses.

- In the heat of the moment, a great team will play on the edge to try to turn the match in their favour. Which is what Barcelona did on Wednesday. If PSG had made it through, they would have been treated like returning heroes, but they were not good enough because they self-imploded.

Yet there seems to be plenty of bitter jealousy out there in traditional and social media towards Barcelona because they are a supreme side. Suggesting the referee wanted Barcelona to win is nonsense. They were guilty of nothing greater than gamesmanship.

Barca deserve all the plaudits for their insatiable appetite to win. It was not only a moment in sport, it was a moment in time.

It deserves proper respect and recognition, not to be confronted by bitterness, paranoia and claims of hyperbole enveloping the win which ironically are also hyperbole.

Yet it sums up the times in which we live when such remarkable success is treated like wrongdoing.

 

Without doubts 100% penalty kick and red for Marquinhos

You post this at Real's forum and still, people there will come up with odd excuses!

 

You did this just to be mean to me, didn't you?

 

To be fair contracts mean nothing these days .

West Ham signed Payet on a "long term deal' and paid him a £1 million LOYALTY bonus ......then he beggered off to France a few weeks later .

 

Off topic, but: one interesting thing to me about that last graphic is how many of the matches in that list are EPL matches. No entries for Barca-Sevilla or Bayern-Dortmund or Juve-Napoli. It shows how thoroughly the Premier League has captured worldwide attention compared to other leagues.